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10/10/10 Discontinued until further notice: unable to obtain yardage that meets quality standards for hydrostatic head pressure. Consider yourself warned that this is not isolated to Thru-Hiker.

Probably old news to some, but it has me wondering about the spinn tarp i just orderd from oes. i'm NOT questioning his product, nor his material knowledge. It was just a surprise to read this. Spinn seems to somewhat still have a bit of "unknown" about it, as opposed to tried and true sil.

Bad batches, is bad batches. I doubt there is more to it than that. I've not heard of any, although I'm not in the business, but I bet there have been bad batches of sil delivered too. Difference is there are more factories manufacturing sil than there are Spinn, so the effect of a bad batch of Spinn is likely to carry more impact. Just thinking out loud, but it kind of makes sense to me.

Brian's Graduate School research is focusing on exactly this type of issue on these two materials. If there is anybody that will know if he has a bad batch of Spinn, my money is on Brian at OES over just about anyone. I don't think you have much to worry about.

Though I'd make a post on this. There have been issues in the past with the coating quality, and I do testing on every bolt received to ensure that my tarps remain a quality, waterproof product. I absolutely will not ship a tarp if I feel that the fabric is compromised in any way.

I currently have a backorder on my SpinnUL tarps due to some recent issues, and I am working to ensure that the fabric received matches the properties of those received in the past. I will of course keep all updated on the status of my fabric stocks.

“Republics are created by the virtue, public spirit, and intelligence of the citizens. They fall when the wise are banished from the public councils because they dare to be honest, and the profligate are rewarded because they flatter the people, in order to betray them.” ~Judge Joseph Story

Keep in mind also that these fabrics are not produced for the purposes we use them for - they're designed to lower or remove air permeability (sails, parachutes, and the like). That's why, for tarp use, we test them ourselves, or have outside sources run water permeability tests on them for us. All of our 1st quality Silnylon has passed suter testing. We also do not sell seconds if they're deemed seconds due to poor coatings.